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During his long career Professor Thaxter has been associated with botanical and entomological expeditions to Newfoundland, the Carolinas, Tennessee, Jamaica, Florida, and many countries in South America and Europe...
There was no mob to begin with, just a decent, orderly procession of substantial Newfoundland folk. Marshaled by a Catholic priest and two Protestant clerics they tramped through the streets of St. John's to the Colonial Building (Parliament House), begged leave to present a petition at the bar of Parliament humbly alleging that Premier Sir Richard Squires had been guilty of malfeasance and had falsified the Executive Council's minutes ? two charges made in the Assembly by former Finance Minister Peter Cashin when he resigned a week before the February riots. In 1925 and again...
Paving stones whistled. Brickbats flew. As throwers improved their aim, window after window of the Colonial Building splintered into tinkling bits. Lady Squires, the Premier's wife and Newfoundland's only female Parliament member, was deeply gashed, was led bleeding from the hall. The mob burst in through the Strangers' Gallery, seized all entrances and set up shouts of "Squires! Squires! Hang him! Throw him in the harbor! Where's Squires...
...rioters fell back, up jumped Father Pippy. Premier Squires, rising badly bruised from the bottom of the heap, was rushed to a secret cellar, disappeared from the Newfoundland scene for 24 hours. The mob, though they had let their quarry escape, made a thorough job of smashing all the Colonial Building windows, battering doors and desks to splinters and scattering State papers by the armful in the street. Solemn, impassioned promises by highly respected citizens that Premier Sir Richard Squires would positively resign or call a Newfoundland election within 48 hours finally got the smashers out of the building...
Patriotic Newfoundlanders flayed "foreign correspondents" for having cabled "exaggerated reports." But there had undoubtedly been "certain occurrences." In London the Tory Evening Standard, close to the British Admiralty, announced that a British warship had been ordered to St. John's. Newfoundland War veterans, who pitched in and helped the St. John's police restore order, were publicly thanked in the King's name...